{"id":5441,"date":"2009-09-21T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2009-09-21T17:27:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T22:27:29","slug":"%e2%80%9ccapitalism-is-actually-legalized-greed%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5441","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCapitalism is actually legalized greed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

…says Michael Moore on Leno, promoting his next documentary \u201cCapitalism: A Love Story.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Um, Michael, greed actually is<\/em> legal. I’m sure you’re donating all the revenue from your film to charity then, right?<\/p>\n

[crickets]<\/p>\n

I can’t wait to go see his latest film because what with the economy and all, I’m a little short on cash and I’m sure a film extolling the evils of greed is…free…right?<\/p>\n

[crickets]<\/p>\n

Moore explained<\/a> that his vision of democracy is redistributionist, and he gave no voice to the idea that self-reliance and hard work can propel one to great wealth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201c…we live in a democracy,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re supposed to have like fairness and equality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exactly. One citizen, one vote; and the American dream is *like* still widely available to *like* anyone willing to like do the work, at least *like* for now.<\/p>\n

“And you know when you have a pie on the table \u2026 there\u2019s 10 slices and one guy at the table says nine of those slices are mine…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gee Michael, I wonder who that<\/em> guy is?<\/p>\n

“…and the other nine of you, you can fight over the last slice. I mean that\u2019s essentially the kind of economy we have now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, not everyone can be Michael Moore, can they?<\/p>\n

What Michael doesn’t seem to understand is that the reason the one guy gets the nine pieces is that the other nine people don’t “go” for them, and in fact the one guy actually bakes the pie and gives the one back to the other nine.<\/p>\n

It’s called a salary.<\/p>\n

In America however, the recipe for the pie is public information. Anyone can bake themselves their own<\/em> pie, and Moore has been doing it for a long time.<\/p>\n

Typical liberal: A prescription for thee but not for me:<\/p>\n

“Many people find it tough to swallow Moore’s jokes<\/a> about the wealthy and then watch him fly first class at his publisher’s or film distributor’s expense to his posh home in New York City’s Central Park West, where he also sends his teenage daughter to an elite private school.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michael Moore is a talented filmmaker who like many in Hollywood have confused their success in the entertainment industry with an almighty ordination to entreat and admonish the minions at their feet with the gravity of their omniscient wisdom.<\/p>\n

“Hey look everybody, it’s Madonna, arriving via private jet and limousine convoy to teach us how to ‘Go Green!'”<\/p>\n

Moore’s hypocrisy is legendary, from investments he has made, people he has hired and then stiffed, to his own conspicuous enjoyment of the larger, juicier fruits of capitalism.<\/p>\n

One can only imagine<\/em> the sacrifices a 500-pound man has imposed on himself.<\/p>\n

But the Hungry Hippocrit doesn’t care who knows all of this as there is always an ample supply of sycophants, unconscious objectors and serial protesters to stand in line and pay full price to see his drivel.<\/p>\n

Which is to say, his hypocrisy hasn’t cost him a penny, so he doesn’t even bother to lift a hammy finger to conceal it.<\/p>\n

…which pretty much makes him…a capitalist…pig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…says Michael Moore on Leno, promoting his next documentary \u201cCapitalism: A Love Story.\u201d Um, Michael, greed actually is legal. I’m sure you’re donating all the revenue from your film to charity then, right? [crickets] I can’t wait to go see his latest film because what with the economy and all, I’m a little short on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}